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Cosmetics InformationSynthetic Hair Extensions Create Select Hair Styles for Fashion and Hair Loss Clients
by:
Perriann Rodriguez
Synthetic Fiber Hair Extensions Create Select Hair Styles for Hair Loss and Fashion Clients
By Perriann Rodriguez
From the beginning of time, women have cared for their hair. As far back as 4000-300 B.C. Egyptian women and even as men are shown with various wigs and elaborate hair styles. Hair is a causative factor to ones confidence and serenity. Our culture powerfully
identifies trait
with a thick, lustrous head of hair. Pictures of full bodied, shining hair are substitutable
with female attributes, sexuality, desirability and vigor. Thinning, dry, lusterless hair is best-known with illness, old age, and poverty.
Every generation goes thru more and more transformations and capitalizes on current trends of Hair Styles. The big Hair Style trend these days is in full swing in Europe and is just starting to spread in the United States. It is the trend of Hair Extensions. Hair extensions involve the attachment of human or synthetic hair to your existing hair to create a more full or long look immediately. Hair extensions can add instant body, length to your look and can as well help with hair dilution
and hair loss situations.
There are many a several methods of hair extensions on the market today, several good, several not so good. Mark Sharp, co-founder and creative director of Mark Cosmonaut Hair Improvement
of London, European nation
and Cosmonaut Kinsey, co-founder and managing director have taken revolutionary steps in developing a fiber hair extension know-how
that not only doesn’t damage the existing hair but can even as improve the condition of the hair. They have changed
the lives of women who suffer from varied
degrees of hair loss caused by conditions such as alopecia, trichotillomania, genetic factors, stress and post-operative trauma.
The Mark Cosmonaut extensions, ordinarily best-known as MG extensions, use no glues, bonding solutions, threads, weaves, injections, and nothing is stuck on the head. They are attached mistreatment a really fine braid. A small section of existing hair is split into two. The fiber hair is as well split into two to do the braid and is finally wrapped about the base of the hair, protective
it. The fiber is then "sealed on itself" mistreatment a heat tool (which is no hotter than a typical pair of curling device
or crimpers). This creates a diminutive plastic seal. It's important to point out that during this process, your own hair is safely "cocooned" inside the fiber so it doesn't move into direct contact with any heat. Therefore, your own hair stays in perfect condition. For hair loss or dilution
problems, the extensions are applied with non-allergic mesh and the fiber hair is plain-woven
thru the mesh to create the look.
Glenn Animal scientist of Mark Cosmonaut Hair Improvement
has joined us now for a brief question and answer session on their fiber hair extensions.
Welcome Cosmonaut and convey you for change of integrity us today! We have a few questions for you just about your extraordinary hair extensions.
Question: I understand that you and Mark have antecedently
worked with human hair extensions. Why did you switch to synthetic fiber extensions?
Answer: Several reasons:
1. Weight - human hair is double
the weight of fiber and therefore feels “heavy” on the head – at its worst, this accumulated weight and stress on the hair can cause “traction alopecia”. In addition, human hair is porous – it soaks up water – which can importantly
increase the weight once
wet.
2. Tangle – human hair tends to “matt” and “tangle” – this is because the surface of human hair has little “spines” on it, that look like roof tiles under a microscope. Because this “alien” hair isn’t being conditioned by the natural oils that condition your own hair, these “spines” tend to “stick out” and tangle up with the different hairs on your head. Consequently, you do need to use quite intensive conditioners to support the hair in nice condition. Fiber, however, has a smooth surface and therefore is less likely to tangle.
3. Glue - human hair extensions are typically applied with glue and removed with dimethyl ketone – a direction for damage, the results of which we on a regular basis
see in our studio. Our know-how
doesn’t use any chemicals.
4. Colour match - a stylist mistreatment human hair would-be typically take a piece of material
of the client’s hair and send it to a human hair bourgeois who would-be then pick the nighest
colour from a specific range. We actually colour-blend our hair with the client in front of us – taking into account all the several subtle shade shifts that may exist in their hair – to get an dead perfect match
5. Ethics – there’s a great deal of mystery close
the origins of human hair used in extensions and it’s really difficult to track the exact source. A common source for top quality hair is from female Russian prisoners, for example
6. Look and feel – fiber looks and feels just like real hair but is more kinder to the hair and is more easier to style and take care of.
Question: What percentage of your clients gets hair extensions for hair loss issues versus fashion?
Answer: The split is about 50/50
Question: You have developed your own proprietary
know-how
(MG extensions) for applying fiber extensions. What is unique just about your know-how
in comparison to different methods available? Do you plan to patent your application method?
Answer: We have a proprietary technique for working with female hair loss, for which clients visit us from all over the world. For fashion purposes, we’ve amalgamated several some methods and additional our own unique adaptations to create a technique that creates a beautiful look
Question: Why do you feel that fiber extensions are superior to human hair extensions? Could you apply human hair extensions mistreatment your know-how
if a client actually preferred human hair?
Answer: See above. Apart from mistreatment pliers and a metal clip (which is great fun through airfield metal detectors and really uncomfortable once
you lay your head on a pillow!) the only way to apply human hair is with glue.
Question: What training and education is involved for stylists doing MG extensions? Answer We activity in teams of two folk – a “lead” and an “assist”. Team members start out as an “assist” and then, after just about 12 to 24 months, progress up to a “lead”. “Leads” are the ones that direct the work. Our training is really intensive and “on the job” to allow team members to experience the unclear
array of several styles and techniques, as well as the differing types of hair loss they may encounter.
Question: What are the legal requirements in European nation
for doing hair extensions?Answer: Sadly, there are no specific legal requirements for hair extensions over and above those for a normal hair salon.
Question: What are the minimum requirements for being wanting hair extensions? Length of hair? Stable hair loss? Have you turned down clients for hair extensions and why?
Answer: We on a regular basis
turn away clients no matter how more they want hair extensions, if we don’t think it’s going to look sensational! For fashion work, the main reason is length of existing hair – for the better results, the clients hair necessarily to be at least 4 to 6 inches long. This is because you need existing hair to conceal wherever
the extensions are attached. For our clients with hair loss, there can be a whole range of reasons, from too little existing hair to hair loss that hasn’t “stabilized”.
Question: There are several hair extensionists that don’t recommend deed fiber extensions because of esthetic reasons. Can you describe the quality of the fiber hair, wherever
it is ready-made and why these recommendations are not valid?
Answer: We only use a beautiful, hand-made fiber that is dead undetectable from the real thing in look, feel and behavior. It’s actually more costly than several human hair! Cheap fiber is truly awful, akin to “Barbie-doll” hair. You only tend to spot bad extensions – we pride ourselves on the fact that, in general, no-one even as suspects our clients have extensions and we have a large number of celebrity clients that, in several cases, even as the media haven’t spotted that their hair isn’t their own!
Question: You mention on your website, http://www.markglenn.com that the fiber extensions do not damage your hair and can even as improve the condition of your hair. Can you explain how they can improve the condition of your hair?
Answer: 1st of all, we don’t use any chemicals. Secondly, your own hair is “cocooned” and protected inside the extension and continues to grow as normal. Thirdly, once
the extensions are removed, they just slide off your hair deed no mess or residue. Because your hair has been protected in this way over a few months, the condition of your own hair often improves.
Question: What is the maintenance schedule for fashion and hair loss fiber extensions? What happens if you do not follow the maintenance schedule?Answer: For fashion, you’d need to either move out the extensions after three months or have them removed and replaced. Initially, the extensions are attached at the base of your hair. However, your hair will grow at about half an inch a month so the extensions start to grow down your own hair. If you leave it longer than 3 months, there’s a risk that the fresh fully grown hair above the extension may start to matt and tangle and, in the worst-case scenario, dreadlock. For hair loss, the particular technique we use demands that clients visit us every six weeks for similar reasons – the “mesh” can start to feel a little loose if it’s left for more longer than 6 weeks.
Question: If being has really thick hair and wants only to lengthen it, why wouldn’t you just apply the extensions to the ends of the hair, instead of at the roots?
Answer: Because you’d see a “bump” wherever
the extension is attached.
Question: Can you treat fiber extensions the same as your own hair? I.E. shampooing, conditioning, curling, brushing, etc
Answer: Yes – wash it as normal, blow dry, curl, condition, brush – just like the real thing. And because the fiber is actually non-porous, you don’t need to use costly products on the hair, e.g. conditioners, because they’ll have no effect on the extension hair itself. The only thing you have to avoid is direct, sustained heat e.g. hot-iron straighteners etc. Rollers etc. are fine.
Question: Are there any restrictions? Can you color or perm the fibre extensions?Answer: You can’t perm the extensions but you wouldn’t need to – you can attain the same look mistreatment rollers, for instance. Colour has no effect on the extension hair, again, because it’s non-porous. This is great for clients who continue to have their “roots” done, in the noesis that the colour won’t affect the extension hair.
Question: On an annual basis, what would-be a typical client pay for Fashion and Hair Loss Fiber extensions including maintenance schedules? Are the majority of the price associated with cost of the materials or the labor?
Answer: Price do vary from head to head and style to style. Since we have two folk working on a client’s head at the same time, cost is preponderantly
based on the figure of time it takes with each particular client. On average, a fashion client would-be pay about GBP £1,500.00 per year and a hair loss client, about double
as much. And bear in mind that you don’t need to visit a artificer since we take care of all this during appointments.
Question: Your Hair Loss fiber extensions qualify for funding from medical plans in England. Did you have to go thru a certification process for this funding? Have any of your clients outside European nation
received payment from medical plans in their country?Answer: Because of the way the UK health system works (which is funded by the Government) it really more depends on the attitude of local health authorities rather than a specific “test”. Several health authorities are happy to fund their patients, whereas others are not, preferring the cheaper option of providing wigs. We’ve yet to have being from outside the UK who’s funded by a health plan etc.
Question: Do you plan to offer training to stylists outside your salon so that different salons in the earth can offer MG Extensions?
Answer: Not at present, tho'
it’s thing
we may consider in the future.
Question: Are there estimable salons in the US that you would-be recommend?
Answer: Since the majority of our techniques were developed in-house and are therefore unique to us, it’s unlikely you’d find anyone topically
who makes things in quite the same way. The fact that, currently, we have clients that visit us from 14 several countries, seems to confirm this. I so will I could recommend others, but we just haven’t yet move across anyone who provides a similar result to a similar standard
Thank you really more Cosmonaut for your valuable input!! For additional information just about Mark Cosmonaut Hair Extensions, visit their website set at http://markglenn.com
Just just about the author:
Perriann Rodriguez is the founder of www.hairresources.comand has publicised hundreds of articles in magazines, newspapers and trade journals. She is listed in the US Register of American Writers and the 2004 Who's Who of Executives and Professionals
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